I need help, im planning on getting a pc soon but im confuse as to which of these are better for hard drive, and im a big gamer, music, pics and just everything fan so which do you guys think its better for not having a super fast pc but not slow either, im looking for lots of space and quick pace for high games, graphics, movies and music, so what’s better?
Hard Drive 1 2 x 500GB Western Digital 7200rpm SATA/300, 16MB Cache RAID 0 Stripe
Hard Drive 2 2 x 500GB Western Digital 7200rpm SATA/300, 16MB Cache RAID 0 Stripe
or
Hard Drive 1 2 x 500GB Western Digital 7200rpm SATA/300, 16MB Cache RAID 0 Stripe
Hard Drive 2 150GB Western Digital Raptor 10,000rpm SATA, 16MB Cache
2007-02-06 09:28:02 · 6 answers · asked by melanie w 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
i would like to know which set is better, price doesnt matter.
2007-02-06 09:38:57 · update #1
my pc will be like this
Motherboard EVGA nForce 680i SLI, Socket 775, PCI-E, DDR2
Processor Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor E6600, dual 2.4GHz cores, 4MB L2 Cache
DDR2 Memory 4096MB Corsair™ DDR2
Video card 640MB EVGA GeForce 8800GTS
it will be new
2007-02-06 09:46:56 · update #2
In terms of the gaming, if you install your games on the Raptor, you'll very likely notice a distinct difference (option 2). However, depending on how old/new your machine is, the limiter for your speed is going to be your chipset (obviously) but, more importantly, the amount of RAM you have installed (2 GB minimum I would reco for today's games) and your video card and it's onboard RAM. You basically have to decide what is most important, speed or space because, as the old rule of thumb goes, whatever space you have, you'll use. Hope that helps.
2007-02-06 09:34:53 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hard Drive 1 2 x 500GB Western Digital 7200rpm SATA/300, 16MB Cache RAID 0 Stripe
Hard Drive 2 2 x 500GB Western Digital 7200rpm SATA/300, 16MB Cache RAID 0 Stripe
2007-02-06 17:32:09 · answer #2 · answered by rodjared 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I did was bought a junker off an auction site and filled it with drives to use as a server (2TB). Cost me less than $300 (for the junker). You are better off with only one drive in the machine unless they are all the same speed / size (so you can RAID).
It's really up to you, but if you truly want performance, stick with one drive, and find another storage solution for your music, video, pix files - or two+ same exact drives (with different lot #'s) striped.
Don't ever mix drive sizes.
2007-02-06 18:26:05 · answer #3 · answered by Wire Tapped 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Western Digital Raptor is the way to go with 10,000 RPM
2007-02-06 17:30:51 · answer #4 · answered by BaN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-06 17:41:37 · answer #5 · answered by Double O 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What is the difference in price? 10000 vs 7200 is not THAT big a difference...lol
2007-02-06 17:31:38 · answer #6 · answered by frozenfun 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋